2003 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2003?
- January 5, 2003 – Police arrest seven suspects in connection with Wood Green ricin plot.
- January 8, 2003 – Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of 75 passengers.
- January 18, 2003 – A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
- February 1, 2003 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- March 12, 2003 – Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
- March 13, 2003 – Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.
- March 18, 2003 – British Sign Language is recognised as an official British language.
- April 7, 2003 – U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein’s regime falls two days later.
- April 14, 2003 – The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
- May 30, 2003 – Depayin massacre: at least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi fled the scene, but is arrested soon afterwards.
- July 30, 2003 – In Mexico, the last ‘old style’Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
- August 10, 2003 – Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space.
- August 11, 2003 – Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
- August 27, 2003 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34646418 mi distant.
- September 12, 2003 – The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
- October 4, 2003 – Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.
- October 24, 2003 – Concorde makes its last commercial flight.
- November 23, 2003 – Rose Revolution: the Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.
- December 26, 2003 – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam, killing tens of thousands and destroying the citadel of Arg-é Bam.
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